Introduce a "reset to empty" API endpoint

As per my comment here: https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/issues/2103#issuecomment-287624520

Basically, I’d really like an endpoint that I could call via the API that would reset the filesystem of the app to a new-state. The reasoning behind this is a bit layered as I’ve been encountering several snags in trying to make my deployments consistent. Much of it stemming from the (lack of) speed during filesystem access.

The premise is simple: This endpoint would take a POST and would quickly reset the wwwroot directory to a state like as if I had just created a fresh new App Service instance.

[atrauzzi]

@davidebbo - Brilliant, this appears to have worked! I commented at Stack Overflow, but just in case anyone lands here via search as well:

This is my build that successfully pushed code up to Azure.

Here are links to my project showing how I invoked everything:

• Upload my deployment image to storage
• Attempt a deployment Azure-side using the hosted msbuild tools

Other parts of that shell script are sure to be interesting to some as well. And of course, it’s easily adapted to PowerShell if that’s your preference.

[davidebbo]

I agree that your question is perfectly reasonable.